(n.) Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nango's dwellings are built on skis so can be pulled around the beach, and have a glass roof to view the northern lights.
(2) Further, they dwell on the management of these infections and illustrate the properties, toxic effects and other side effects of the antibiotics commonly used in therapy and for the prevention of complications.
(3) Current income, highest income, occupation, type of dwelling, years of education, and crowding did not enter the stepwise regression model at alpha = .10.
(4) A policy of selective antibiotic prophylaxis is justified and in high risk patients with in-dwelling catheters single dose prophylaxis is highly effective.
(5) The dwell-time histogram in each substate was well fitted with a single-exponential function.
(6) The frequency of mites in dust from farmers' homes was three times higher and that of pyroglyphids ten times higher than in other dwellings.
(7) The typical synanthropic species Glycyphagus domesticus is totally absent from dwellings but occurs in 90% of honey-bee hives.
(8) Absence of a functioning velocity storage network in bottom-dwelling teleosts (as in Amphibia) may be related to the sporadic, slow locomotion of these species and the resulting small requirements for continuous gaze stabilization during self-motion at higher velocities.
(9) The sample comprised 101 community-dwelling older adults aged 57 to 87.
(10) Republicans were under pressure not to dwell on Clinton’s use of a private email server as too zealous an attack could come off as partisan.
(11) Approximately 1,056 dwellings were located in the Oberon Shire by the interviewers; household interviews were obtained from 789 of them.
(12) A significant seasonal variation of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels was noted in elderly community-dwelling subjects.
(13) After displaying the results concerning arrhythmias of 24 hr Holter electrocardiograms recorded in 207 randomized patients who had undergone valvular replacement 15 days before, the authors dwell upon the use of Holter electrocardiography in 82 valvular patients after pharmacological cardioversion and show that major arrhythmias get a clear reduction thanks to rehabilitation.
(14) Bucknall, 53, is reluctant to dwell on mistakes that have been made, but admits "it would be odd if after 10 years, we hadn't learned a lot".
(15) Second-order factor analyses yielded two comparable sets of three second-order factors: Social Activities and Self-Care Ability, whereas the third factor connected high welfare with age-segregated dwelling (and low welfare with age-integration).
(16) The number of years spend in dwellings without central heating was significantly inversely associated with the level of FEV1 and MMEF, and significantly directly associated with closing capacity in per cent of TLC, CC%.
(17) A greater loss of proteins overnight was due to longer dwell time as the mean rate of loss was similar for all exchanges.
(18) Additional studies are highly desirable to confirm or refute these findings, which, if valid, mean increasing lung cancer hazards caused by a decrease in ventilation in future energy saving unless special measures are undertaken to reduce radon daughters in dwellings.
(19) We investigated whether day to day changes in the transport characteristics of the peritoneal membrane to macromolecules in patients treated with CAPD, were related to the levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in the effluent of an overnight dwell.
(20) Using the assumption that prolonged dwell time indicates intensive processing of visual data, a model was developed for nodule detection that includes four steps: orientation, scanning, pattern recognition and decision-making.
Shantytown
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Presently, 33% of urban city dwellers live in slums or shantytowns.
(2) Read more The eastern state of Bihar this week took the unprecedented step of forbidding any cooking between 9am and 6pm, after accidental fires exacerbated by dry, hot and windy weather swept through shantytowns and thatched-roof houses in villages and killed 79 people.
(3) Sprawling over almost 100 square miles, this shantytown had scant electricity, running water or sanitation.
(4) The price of rented accommodation is so inaccessible that many workers on modest pay are having to take up illegal and substandard rooms rented out by modern-day marchands de sommeil , or "sleep vendors" (the term originally described those who rented beds by the hour to 1950s workers in shantytowns on the outskirts of Paris).
(5) Demand for housing turned the area near the hypocentre into a shantytown of 10,000 homes that were little more than wooden shacks, with sanitary facilities shared among several households.
(6) When he was shot, King had been planning a Poor People’s Campaign – wildly unpopular even among the dwindling supporters he had at the end of his life – which was meant to unite poor whites, blacks and Latinos in a shantytown built on the Capitol Mall called “ Resurrection City ”.
(7) Graves, some with more than a hundred bodies, were dug in rural areas just outside the capital, while in the shantytown of Carrefour local authories said more than 2,000 corpses were burned.
(8) It started in the early 80s as a colonia - a shantytown built on land for which its owners could find no other use.
(9) Designer shops and luxury beachside restaurants sit cheek-by-jowl with crammed, tin-roof shantytowns strewn with rubbish and resembling Brazilian favelas.
(10) During the second half of 1986 the health and nutritional status of 254 children aged up to six years was studied, as well as the socio-economic situation of their parents in two favelas (shantytowns) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
(11) The road is in a shantytown on a hill overlooking a Coca Cola bottling plant in western Freetown, which has one of the highest rates of new Ebola cases in Sierra Leone .
(12) And against the cliffs, rocks and hills, the buildings looked so insubstantial – like a slight shift in the earth's crust and the forest would re-engulf the high-rises and shantytowns, and reclaim the land.
(13) NoViolet Bulawayo, who was born in Zimbabwe a year after it became independent and moved to the US at the age of 18, is on it for We Need New Names, which has been described a "visceral and bittersweet" portrayal of life in a Zimbabwean shantytown called Paradise.
(14) Heavy rains, which always cause flooding in this huge shantytown, also disrupted television reception.
(15) Another 54 people were wounded in the attack on the tented shantytown, said Mohammed al-Qabatis, a medic at the field hospital set up in the square.
(16) In a country scarred by huge disparities in wealth, Oiticica (who died in 1980) drew inspiration from the favelas (shantytowns) and their samba schools.
(17) This time last week Change Square – the tented shantytown in the heart of the capital – was a sanctuary for Yemen's pro-democracy dissidents.
(18) Researchers determined the antibody response to Cryptosporidium sporozoites in 6475 breast milk samples from 211 mothers of newborns living in the shantytown of San Juan de Miraflores on the outskirts of Lima, Peru to determine the association of breast milk with cryptosporidial infection rates, mean duration of infection, and age at 1st infection.
(19) in 1969 and settled down in shantytowns (villas miseria).
(20) Their substituting the district (barrio) for the shantytown points out their longing for a change in their situation.